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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a160a180-port-of-immingham-improvement-development-consent-order-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/129",
  "legislation_title": "The A160/A180 (Port of Immingham Improvement) Development Consent Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a160a180-port-of-immingham-improvement-development-consent-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Contaminated land and groundwater",
  "text": "(1) In the event that contaminated land, including groundwater, is found at any time when carrying out the authorised development, which was not previously identified in the environmental statement, the undertaker must cease construction of the authorised development in the vicinity of that contaminated land and must report it immediately in writing to the Secretary of State, the Environment Agency and relevant planning authority, and in agreement with the Environment Agency and the relevant planning authority undertake a risk assessment of the contamination.\n(2) Where the undertaker determines that remediation is necessary, a written scheme and programme for the remedial measures to be taken to render the land fit for its intended purpose must be submitted to and approved in writing by the Secretary of State, following consultation with the relevant planning authority and the Environment Agency.\n(3) No remedial work constituting a material operation (as defined in section 155 (when development begins) of the 2008 Act) in respect of contamination of any land, including groundwater, within the Order limits is to be carried out until the scheme for remediation has been approved under sub-paragraph (2).\n(4) Remediation must be carried out in accordance with the approved scheme.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7 in force at 25.2.2015, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/129/schedule/2/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:49:02.568062+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}